Miranda Houston

Thursday, 24 January 2013

This semester has
gone by so fast, with all the bumps in the road and the chase for finishing my
last assignments it is all finally done. I have not once regretted filling my
spare with this course, it’s been a blast! My favorite project was The Buried
by far. Putting together the project in the form of animoto was lots of fun, I
had to take my thing own pictures which added lots of creativity. The MTV show
was a part of class I always looked forward to. Seeing all the crazy things
that those guys did made me what to be crazy and do life changing things. My
favorite episode was when one of the guys tried to get a girl to marry him in
Los Vegas…. And the fact that the girl actually did it made me want to do
something out of the ordinary as well. My least favorite assignment was
definitely the newspaper blackout. None of
the poems that I did were great. I had a lot of problems trying to figure out
what I was going to scribble out or even try and write about. I believe that
the idea was there I just needed a stronger push and more ambition. With every Friday
comes a reading class and with every reading class come relaxation. Personally I
loved the reading classes because that way I will be able to fit in reading
every week. The selection of book you have is unreal. You’re the teacher who
made me want to read in grade nine, you’re the reason why I walk past a book
and I have to pick it up to read the back and give it a chance. So I thank you
for those Friday reading classes and all those amazing book you lend out to
just about anyone. The Monday reading reflection wasn’t always so bad it made
me think about what I had just read and have someone to tell about it all. Some
Mondays I have been really lazy , that’s why I get backed up on my responses. With
every book I read their questions running through my head and comments. It’s nice
to have someone who will take the time out of there day to hear what their
students have to say. I favored the blog more than the twitter. My reasons
behind this is because I’m addicted to another blogging site called tumbler ,
so by taking this class I learned that Google has the better format of a blog
but tumbler has a better feed. The personal additions were important near the
end because that’s when I because a lot more in touch with my blog. At first I thought
it was a drag to post everything I had
done and type it all , it just seemed like a lot of work .As I said the Google
blog did grow on me. Now as for the twitter, I was not so much of a fan. However
I do like it better for the reading response, it a louse me to sum up what I have
to say about my book without rambling on about what I had already read. Over all
your course was a awesome experience for my last year of high school.

Wednesday, 23 January 2013

“This will be a
good trip. Come on, relax, enjoy it.” After Alice is secretly drugged at a
party, she awakens to the exciting amazing adventure that life had planned out
for her. She starts experimenting with other hard drugs and begins to lose her
sanity and grip on reality. I would recommend this book to teens and adults. I
think we should be forced to read it in high schools. Since this is about a
teen struggling with addiction and the social pressures of the drug world, it
is a real eye opener to anyone. This book will show them not to make the same mistakes
as she once did, or maybe some may be able to relate so they know that they are
not alone. This book has always been a favorite ! I could read it over and over
again. Go ask Alice is the type of book that it extremely hard to pull away from
your face. Threw out the story I always ask myself How could she let her
addiction get this far? Or even why does she keep hurting her body after all
she has been threw? But as you keep reading the story pulls you in more and
more. Alice is living the mistakes that we don’t want to make. Over all this wasn’t
really a reading response , but I believe that everybody should give this book
a chance.

Newspaper Black out was not anywhere near good for me. There
were plenty fall outs in all my poems, gaps that needed to be filled. I’m
pretty sure when they were read that there was guarantee confusion. I believe
that I had these struggles because I could not grasp the understandings of it
all. Sliding by on each poem hoping that it made sense to someone other than
me. The thoughts running threw my head last minute before we posted them all
were embarrassed and ashamed of my work. I can’t blame it on anyone but myself,
I had no motivation for this project to begin with. I guess what I wanted was to write my own poems,
something that I knew I would be good at . None the less I could have tried
harder and I’m sorry that little effort was put in. I will admit this was a great and cool idea. Some
of the other student’s pomes were great I really enjoyed reading them and
putting together the trail they leave. That would be another reason why this
project was a good learning experience. It was different for all other projects,
unique. It made me want to read them just to see if I could follow them and
piece it all together. Looking back I would change the newspaper I got and how
my train of thought was going .

During writing my twitter fiction I was having some struggles with
coming up with a good story line . Personally this project was not my strongest
assessment. Reading other tweets made me realize that I just over thought
everything. My strongest point was defiantly was probably my full story line
(which was not appropriate to tweet) . Personally I should have done a completely
different story , but I was stuck so I chose to write an erotic story line .I
really enjoyed reading other students tweets , some were about love, fighting
and living. My favorite tweets were most likely Claire’s. Her form of writing is
just like the type off book I enjoy reading on a daily basis. Claire’s story
line was consistently good and she showed her strengths in this project. The
reading class on Thursday was extremely different for me. Reading twitter... Okay sure why not! Reading something
so simple is perfectly fine with me, especially because it’s broken down in to sections
of 140 characteristics. I didn’t have really any other free time to read other competitors
that I didn’t know, that’s something I would like to go back and do. Before this
project I did already have a account ,but nowhere near the same as my one for
school. To be honest this has changed my perspective about twitter and how it
can be used in other way. Over all this “Twitter
Fiction” was not really an outstanding assignment for me .

I’m having some
troubles with my twitter fiction. I have spent some crazy nights just
brainstorming trying to think about what I have to say in my story and how it
should all pan out. So after many stressful hours I am half way complete. I have now gone over 51 tweets and there are
still more to come. The story I chose to tell is about a man and a women
falling in love. Most people might think it sounds cliché, but with my story it
get hearted and intense. The only bad thing is that I will not be able to post
it all. My reasoning for this is that my whole story is appropriate for school.
In the end I know my story will be worth reading even with some of the gaps it
has. I chose to write about love because I thought it would be easy. During writing
my tweets I had thought to myself, how am I going to make people want to read
it? SEX ..That was the answer. For some reason that makes everyone want to read
more . 50 shades of gray , now that was a women pleaser apparently . So far
I have not included the “he said she said” part. As for my images I’m not too
worried. Personally I would like to take my own pictures because that is
something I truly enjoy. It would also show that I am putting personal time and
effort in to my project. If I could go back and change anything I would make it
and old fashion love story, but with the fuel of my own story. Over all my
story needs a little looking over and it should all be fixed.